Historically, North American wetland ecosystems supported substantial waterfowl biodiversity prior to agricultural development. Loss of wetland habitats in agricultural states such as Iowa is often linked to regional ...

Collaborative efforts are often important in achieving ecological goals. We partnered with SE Polk High School to create a peer-mentoring research team with two goals: (1) to build environmental education into the high ...

Restoration ecologists are increasingly turning to the development of models to predict how species move from a regional species pool into a restored community. Two untested assumptions of these models, however, are that ...